Advanced Supply Chain Planning

Demantra Overview

Advanced Supply Chain Planning

Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) is a

comprehensive planning solution that decides when and where
supplies should be deployed within an extended supply chain.
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Plan all supply chain facilities simultaneously

Short-term detailed scheduling and long-term aggregate

planning are supported within a single plan

Plans that consider both resource and material

constraints
Configure Oracle ASCP to optimize specific business
criteria
Allows many types of changes to supply, demand and
resources to simulate changing business conditions

The key capabilities of Oracle ASCP are:

Holistic Optimization, Planning, and Scheduling. Oracle ASCP

can plan all supply chain facilities simultaneously. Short-term
detailed scheduling and long-term aggregate planning are
supported within a single plan. This single plan also supports
multiple manufacturing methods, including discrete, flow,
project, and process manufacturing.
Finite Capacity Planning and Scheduling. Oracle ASCP
generates feasible supply chain plans that consider both
resource and material constraints.
Optimization. Users can easily configure Oracle ASCP to
optimize specific business criteria. No programming is
necessary to access Oracle ASCP's powerful mathematical
optimization capabilities.
Backward Compatibility. Oracle ASCP's component
architecture allow it to be deployed against any version of

Oracle Demantra is a best-in-class solution for demand management, real-time

sales and operations planning, and trade promotions management. It helps
customers improve forecast accuracy, generate better statistical forecasts,
more easily collaborate to a consensus demand number, balance budgets,
supply and demands, and analyze promotion effectiveness.
Key features and benefits
Demantra Demand Management solution lets you sense, plan for, and
proactively respond to demand by sharing a one-number plan that aligns your
organization across departments and users
Demantra Demand Management allows you to model new products based on
the lifecycle of existing products, or you can model new products or versions
that supersede existing products
Demantra Real-time Sales and Operations Planning gives planners and
managers the information and planning tools they need to take command of
day-to-day planning processes
Demantra Real-time Sales and Operations Planning provides the foundation for
a responsive sales and operation planning process that enables the current and
emerging best practices in adaptive demand-driven planning
Demantra Predictive Trade Planning gives you unparalleled accuracy and
sophistication in volume forecasting, pre-event simulation, and post-event
evaluation, all at account managers' fingertips
Demantra Predictive Trade Planning provides a comprehensive sales and
account planning environment that allows account managers to manage all
routine sales forecasting and account planning activities from a single screen

Support planning the way your business works

Standard, pre-configured, extensible
hierarchies, series and worksheets to
model all planning data:

Map to EBS and E1 hierarchies

Products, product families and product categories

Customer ship-to locations

Sales channels and customer accounts

Oracle transaction systems.

Workflow-Driven Exception Messaging. Oracle ASCP's
exception messages alert planners to critical issues across the
extended supply chain. Workflows that drive these exceptions
route data to and feedback from trading partners as required,
thus effectively involving them in the supply chain planning
process.
Global Accessibility. Oracle ASCP's database-centric
architecture stores plan data in a central planning server
database. These data are accessible from anywhere via a
simple browser. It is possible for multiple planners to
simultaneously access data from a single plan.
Integrated Planning and Execution. Oracle ASCP's Advanced
Planner Workbench user interface not only displays plan
results, but also allows planners to execute planning
recommendations. Planners do not have to move to the
transaction system to perform plan execution.
Simulation Capability. Oracle ASCP allows many types of
changes to supply, demand, plan options, and resource profiles
to simulate changing business conditions. You can generate a
plan considering all the changes that have been entered via the
Planner's Workbench. Unlimited numbers of scenarios can be
simulated and compared using online planning, copy plans,
and exceptions. Examples of the types of changes are firming,
changing sources, modifying quantities and dates, modifying
priorities, modifying resource availability, modifying supplier
capacity, and modifying objective weights.

Sense demand real-time

Capture demand more frequently, closer to the point of consumption

Capture demand and forecast at more granular level (store, shelf,

attributes, product characteristics)

Achieve consensus demand number more quickly by involving all

constituents at the same time, including customers

Quickly identify and react to demand changes and exceptions

Improve forecast accuracy

Leverage advanced statistics for more accurate demand number

Use any combination of quantitative or qualitative data to establish your

base line forecast

High precision statistical forecasting, no statistical background required

Superior Bayesian-Markov forecast analytics

Forecast based on attributes and characteristics

Leverage Advanced Forecast Modeling for promotion lift decomposition and

causal analysis

Evolve to real-time S&OP

Profitably balance supply, demand, and budgets

Align strategic and tactical plans

Role based process, proactively managed via workflow